Posted in poetry on Feb 8th, 2010
The Tetragrammaton is irreversible. I cannot see the light. To force the Holy into action. To bring His presence back into Creation. I know your name. But you are not your brothers’ keeper. Consecration spreads it’s wings. It is the force that turns the world. It is the change that time cannot deny. It is [...]
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Posted in featured, fiction on Jan 18th, 2010
I’ve just posted the 3rd piece of The Tribe of the Star, on HubPages. It is post-apocalyptic science fiction, and may form into a novella. In this piece we meet Malig-Jon’s cousin, the courier, Runa Dag. Read the new piece here! Miss the first 2? Check them out here: Tribe of the Star Part 1 [...]
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Posted in update on Jan 13th, 2010
Wow, I had no idea how long it had been since I had posted an entry here. What can I say, sometimes life just catches up with you. This is not to say that I stopped writing all together. I’ve made a lot of headway on my two big fiction projects, The Cost of Magic, [...]
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Posted in Basic Ideology on Oct 6th, 2009
When I asked the community for an inside view of Humanism, I never expected to get such a rich and detailed version like the one Ryan provided for our last lesson. In this lesson, we’ll talk about Humanism, using the information that is generally available across the net, and some of the remarks Ryan made. [...]
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Posted in featured, poetry on Sep 3rd, 2009
I’ve posted a new poem over at HubPages about the absolving nature of waterfalls. Check it out here. Jack I Listen. HubPages Poetry
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Posted in Basic Ideology on Aug 15th, 2009
I’m working on a set of articles for the Basic Ideology 101 series that covers dominant and popular ideologies in use around the world today. These articles will be in-depth, but, hopefully, easy to understand. We will talk about philosophies, religious views, politics, and cultures. Along with ideologies you may already be familiar with, I [...]
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Posted in Basic Ideology on Jul 28th, 2009
The tracks always come back. Rumi. Shams. Wine and Dance and God. Was there ever really anything else? Since I first discovered Sufism as an adolescent, the dervish spin never left me. The idea that one can get so close, become so consumed in the flame, and love every moment of it. I lost that [...]
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Posted in Fragments on Jun 24th, 2009
Richard Matheson wrote What Dreams May Come in 1978, as a love story to his wife. It pops up every so often in my life, and reminds me of the things that I love, and gives me hope. I may disappear from time to time, but it is within my nature to run. Run to [...]
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Posted in fiction, The Cost of Magic on Mar 29th, 2009
This is the 26th section of my novel. If you haven’t read the first 25, you might want to start here. Jane’s Journey —- In the astral world, Jane’s soul was exploring. She saw the pyramids of Egypt in their greatest glory. She flew over Atlantis, populated by ethereal glowing balls, that she could only [...]
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Posted in Fragments on Mar 25th, 2009
You know those nights, when you can’t sleep? No matter what you do? It’s 4am on a Tuesday. There you are. Staring at the ceiling. Counting proverbial sheep. Your mind racing, any kind of distraction will do. Anything to slow down. Anything at all. But every Tuesday that this happens, it gets a little worse. [...]
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